We're giving Mary the Tingles

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A Canberra father cleared out the Fruit Tingles in milk bars
around his suburb and sat up until the early hours of yesterday
fashioning them into a bouquet to catch a princess's eye.

It worked like a charm. Princess Mary was sweeping all before
her as she visited the Australian National University in Canberra
when the Fruit Tingles stopped her in mid-regal flow.

"Oh! How lovely," she said delightedly, spying Sian Gore
Phillips, 5, standing at her father Glenn's side with her fruity
offering. Ever since Mary confessed to a yearning for the lollies
as one of the things she missed about Australia, on Andrew Denton's
ABC TV program Enough Rope, she has been showered with them.
They continued to rain down yesterday as Denmark's Crown Prince
Frederik and Crown Princess Mary were in Canberra for the second
leg of their Australian tour. Even at the Australian War Memorial,
the deluge persisted with the princess telling wellwishers
conspiratorially: "You wouldn't believe how many Fruit Tingles I've
got." But Sian's astounding "bouquet de Fruit Tingles" took the
prize.

Her father said: "I showed the security people straight away
when we got here. I didn't want Sian to have the bouquet
confiscated as a terrorist threat or something."